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When you look at the trends in income/wealth inequality in USA, you see significant change in divergence between the top 1% and the rest of the population beginning sometime in 1992. This is when SEC first introduced requirements for disclosure of executive pay. Before that, companies could keep...

I think this is a different matter. There are some special callsigns that indicate special type of flight, passengers or cargo (and that includes MEDEVAC, etc). Making up one's own callsign and using that in ATC is not going to work.

I'm not sure what use would such callsign be when one flies in the national (or, for that matter, International) airspace. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are only two types of callsigns one can use while communicating with ATC. For general aviation (non-scheduled flights), it is the aircraft...

I don't know... Normally, every interaction with a controller begins with "Somewhere Tower, this is Cessna 4-6-2-tango-whiskey..." etc, to which the controller simply needs to repeat "Cessna 4-6-2-tango-whiskey" (or simply "Cessna 2-tango-whiskey"), at the beginning of his (her) response. I...

I'm not sure why you'd think that. On Airliners.net, there are photos of probably close to a hundred different BD-4 planes (finished, apparently flying). After over fifty years, I can't imagine the company staying in business with only 100 completions (on average fewer than two per year). As...

That may be true, but BD-4 has been in existence for over 50 years now, and hundreds (possibly, over a thousand) have been built and flown, so the numbers have been long ago verified. It seems to be a very good airplane. You can achieve the useful load numbers if you're careful with the...